This is a major functionality issue that needs to be addressed.
I thought I was doing something wrong, and am shocked that this is just how it works. A major major flaw, we basically cannot use the search bar at all.
Echoing this issue for prosperity in the hopes that Figma will address this. Upgraded to a new library and advising users to turn off the old library (during a transition phase) and causing major issues of duplicated components and user issues around knowing which instance of a component to actually use.
This is a major productivity problem for us. We’re using a hierarchy of libraries where the same component name is used in multiple libraries.
Seeing the library name in the search results would really help designer productivity and prevent the use of incorrect components.
Same here in our organization. Designers often use old unpublished and deleted components because they appear in “assets”. So we are painting it red to indicate that it is an old component. Horrible.
This could be really helpful for us. We’re not even a big shop, but keeping the smaller subcomponents we use to create a main component hidden from search would be really helpful.
Same here so frustrating!!!
Just joined a large organization with dozens of design teams spread out over years and years.
Searching for “checkbox” shows every checkbox from every possible iteration of old design systems.
The default behavior for component search should only show local components and enabled libraries.
This is nearly a two year old topic and it is still a big pain. Please solve this.
Please fix this issue! Clearly, its current search behavior is unexpected and counterintuitive. Not looking forward to all the upcoming issues this will cause when our organization grows.
This is a critical issue. This structure does not support agencies that have unique design systems for each new clients. Assets search within a design system is completely unusable.
This is a huge issue! FIX IT! 😡
I’m surprised this has yet to be fixed. Asset search should be the quickest was to find components, yet I end up not using it because it displays depreciated and “hidden” components. What is the point of this? We unpublish components so they won’t be used by our design team. I constantly have designers pulling in depreciated icons because the asset search querying is so bad. It doesn’t even throw them into categories or divide them by their path. It’s a truly terrible experience and makes search painful if not completely worthless.
Please make this a priority.
Please do this. I got a lot of libs running for different clients. And it is annoying as hell to place an icon which isn’t used within the system. I only want local or connected component in the search result and not those of all librarys, outdated, old or new.
Any update on this thing? It been started since 2021 with 150+ vote. How many more they need to take action in general?
yeah this needs to be implemented
Part of the problem is that the results don’t show which library they come from so you will see little thumbnails of similar components but can’t choose the most recent library. It’s normal to have an old version of something in a new design file for reference but that automatically forces you to include the old library in the search results. It basically makes the search unusable. You have to go to the design library file or pick from the Asset hierarchy list to be sure what you are getting.
“All Libraries” seems to be the default search parameter. When you do search it seems to first show results from only the libraries you have enabled.
The issue is it won’t show all the results from your selected libraries. I have tested this and when I select only the specific library it shows more results, but when I select “All libraries” it doesn’t show as many results and instead starts showing results from other libraries called “Showing results from all libraries”.
I am not sure why it decides to only show a few results before showing other libraries you don’t even have turned on. It should show all the results from your current libraries before showing other libraries that aren’t turn on.
++ please fix this. component search is theoretically a great feature and this oversight ruins it
“All library” default is killing our team.
It searches also archived libraries that aren’t even connected, showing things even before new one 😡 😡 😡
FIX THIS ASAP
I’m curious if anyone actually likes the way this works? If so, they could add a radio button option (or similar) to choose which type of search one wants.
I have to say, this topic is over three years old (as are several others on these boards). I often wonder if anyone from Figma actually reads anything that we post here. With their recent surplus of $1,000,000,000*, you’d think they could prioritize a few of these things. Or at least acknowledge our posts and let us know the status of them.
I too face the issue that is discussed in this topic. Why Figma isn’t fixing it?
Agreed – this is an issue for me and my teams as well. Locking in the search to a designated library would save so much headache, and seems so simple it’s mind blowing they haven’t implemented this yet.
I’d hope for more QOL improvements like this and less AI cruft.
I very much agree: Improve the UI instead of spending time on AI cruft.
